Brick after installing GApps, help me recover! - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

Earlier I did a dirty flash of the 8-17 CM10.2 nightly over 10.1, rebooted and everything was ok. I decided to check for an updated GApps and downloaded the 20130813 GApps from here. I rebooted into CWM, installed the GApps, rebooted my phone and BAM! Stuck at the "Samsung Galaxy SII" screen.
Tried accessing recovery - no go. Tried accessing download mode - no go. Did some google-fu and discovered I can in fact get into download mode by pulling the battery, plugging my phone into USB, holding home + vol down and tapping the power button, even though I'm unable to enter download mode when on battery. Got into download mode and loaded up odin3 3.07, and installed stock UCKH7 which I used to recover my phone about 6 months ago. Odin flashed, reset my phone, said "Pass!", but phone was still stuck at the GSII spash screen. Tried again with stock UCLE5 image also confirmed working about 6 months ago - no go. Odin says "Pass!" but phone remains stuck at splash screen.
As a side note, my phone seems to get REALLY hot if I leave it sitting on the splash screen for two long, plugged in or not. I've also tried pulling the SIM and uSD.
Suggestions?
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Morning update: After letting my phone set overnight without the battery, I plugged it back in and found no changes. I decided to try once more loading UCLE5, walked away from it and got some oats. When I came back, it was past the Samsung splash screen and bootlooping at the "AT&T - Rethink Possible" screen and was very hot.
I'm going to try pushing a kernel with CWM to it.

Are you saying that after flashing UCKH7 and then UCLE5 that you still can't get into recovery? Normally, the remedy for an incomplete boot, or boot loop, after flashing the stock firmware is to perform a wipe data/factory reset from stock 3e recovery.
Also, in your first post, you mention getting into download mode by holding down the home plus vol down buttons and then tapping the power button. The SGH-I777 does not have a hardware home button. And, I've never seen that sequence mentioned by anyone in connection with the SGH-I777. Are you sure you have the AT&T version and not maybe the GT-I9100?

creepyncrawly said:
Are you saying that after flashing UCKH7 and then UCLE5 that you still can't get into recovery? Normally, the remedy for an incomplete boot, or boot loop, after flashing the stock firmware is to perform a wipe data/factory reset from stock 3e recovery.
Also, in your first post, you mention getting into download mode by holding down the home plus vol down buttons and then tapping the power button. The SGH-I777 does not have a hardware home button. And, I've never seen that sequence mentioned by anyone in connection with the SGH-I777. Are you sure you have the AT&T version and not maybe the GT-I9100?
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I've always held down the "home" capacitive key when getting into download or recovery, never tried without it.
Anyway, I used the "I777UCKH7.pit" in your repository and then reflashed, got into recovery, factory wiped, and I'm now in stock ICS. Thank you for posting all of those files!

Did you try holding the 2 volume button and THEN plugging in the USB cable? That gets me into download mode immediately.

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exclamation point error

Hey Everyone,
I am having troubles with the exclamation point error. Odin locked up in the middle of a flash and now I can't reboot the phone. The restart doesn't work, and I can't get back into download mode. Anyone have any suggestions?
DaSmittyman said:
Hey Everyone,
I am having troubles with the exclamation point error. Odin locked up in the middle of a flash and now I can't reboot the phone. The restart doesn't work, and I can't get back into download mode. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Hey, try (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN) turning off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen (you ought to be able to accomplish this by pulling your battery, popping it back in and plugging your vibrant into your computer via the data cable until you see the charging battery icon) From here, press volume up and down, and power all at once (or try volume +, and power)...As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button. With a bit of luck, and the correct key combo, BAM download mode. ^^
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Hey, try (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN) turning off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen (you ought to be able to accomplish this by pulling your battery, popping it back in and plugging your vibrant into your computer via the data cable until you see the charging battery icon) From here, press volume up and down, and power all at once (or try volume +, and power)...As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button. With a bit of luck, and the correct key combo, BAM download mode. ^^
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Ya I had tried that, unfortunatly it seems all roads lead to the exclamation point. Even pulling the battery, plugging the phone in and holding -, + and -, or just + doesn't even take me to download
If ODIN still recognize the COM port then you can still try flashing. Which ODIN image are you using and did you try it with the PIT file? Try a different Odin image because yours might be corrupt. Also you should try with a different cable.
Here is a link to some Odin images: http://d-h.st/users/Big Dog KMc
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
^ This guy is on the money. If Odin recognizes your device, your golden. I often like to refer people to this excerpt from my MIUI guide...
"SOFT" BRICKED WHILE USING ODIN?
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If you are getting a "Phone.. ! ..Computer" image (seen above) when booting phone, yes, you are bricked but it is reversible! Just follow these steps...
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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Sent from my SGH-T959
N00B_IN_N33D said:
^ This guy is on the money. If Odin recognizes your device, your golden. I often like to refer people to this excerpt from my MIUI guide...
Sent from my SGH-T959
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And the above is correct reading the stickies and tutorials is apparently underrated.

[Q] I beseech thee, help me diagnose my YP-G70!

I've been searching XDA and Google for months now and I haven't found anyone else with this precise issue. I'm very tech savvy, but this is just beyond me! What say you? Will you help me in my quest to diagnose my device and possibly find a cure?
Listed below is what occurs when the USB Cable is connected, either via PC or the Wall.
While USB Cable is disconnected:
Pressing or holding any of the buttons, together or individually, does absolutely nothing. (But the battery can't be dead. I've had the thing on charge all night!)
When USB Cable is connected:
http://youtu.be/J8FJSo_S7cQ
Without pressing anything, the device powers on into download mode and continues to reboot itself every few minutes.
Holding the power button (or all buttons together) reboots it back into download mode to repeat what I just described above.
Pressing any/all buttons at this point does nothing.
When I disconnect the USB Cable from the device while in Download Mode, the device shuts off after about 20 seconds.
I have seen this on occasion, but nothing different happens:
(I'm aware this means forced download mode.)
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I'm able to use Odin completely normally and flash anything successfully as well. Yet it just reboots back into download mode. And if I leave it alone while connected to my PC with Odin up, this is what it looks like:
I've "successfully" installed Stock ROM, Kernel and PIT files. Nothing changes! I've also tried one-click unsoftbricker, heimdal, calling it names, begging it to work. Am I crazy or...is this thing done for?
Have you tried repartitioning it?
By clicking that check box in Odin? Yes.
Ah, you must've hardbricked your Galaxy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1496360 < See if anything in that topic helps you.
You need to flash a ROM that has boot loaders in it...
When you use the unbrickable resurector, it flashes a boot loader that always boots to download mode. From download mode, you can flash a FULL rom, that will replace the boot loader. Then it will boot normally.
TheKryptonite said:
Ah, you must've hardbricked your Galaxy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1496360 < See if anything in that topic helps you.
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Thanks, I've been suspecting hard brick. I've seen that thread before, it could really use some reorganizing. I can barely follow it.
Meticulus said:
You need to flash a ROM that has boot loaders in it...
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That would make sense but which ROMs would those be?
This is a Russian ROM but it should have boot loaders.
http://www.4shared.com/zip/vxHoJ8E0/G70JKKE3_STOK_222RU_.html
Let me know how it goes...
Downloading now. I'll have to try it tomorrow on spare time. Really hoping this works. Thanks for giving me some hope, I really thought this thing was done for!
It's not hard bricked... that ROM will restore it. But after you flash that rom , you'll need to flash a different Rom for your region...
Meticulus said:
It's not hard bricked... that ROM will restore it. But after you flash that rom , you'll need to flash a different Rom for your region...
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I never even heard of a "Full" ROM before. The problem I was having was apparently my bootloader - or lack-there-of.
You saved my Galaxy Player's life! Thank you very much!
I'm happy to say that this case is closed!
I am going to favorite this thread. You never know when you'll need some good info like this.
Ironically, my GP just managed to softbrick -_- I may be f'd.
Edit: Thankfully, I managed to fix it. Whew!

No internet, no work. Really need help.

OK. So i started with a Galaxy S4 Verizon 4.4.2 (bought refurbished, no sim, not activated).
As soon as i put the sim in at verizon store and started using phone all was good. I immediately root the phone w Towelroot. Use Safestrap and flash the Hyperdrive Rom. Excellent. In my exitment i try the Super6 Rom. Iam now at
Android 5.0.2
baseband i545vrugoc1
kernal 3.4.0-4584173
build gogolies super6-.i545vrugoc1
I can make and receive calls but have no internet and no texting
I cant work until this is fixed. Is ther any hope for me?
I now have the triangle and can not boot the phone
bbiigg said:
OK. So i started with a Galaxy S4 Verizon 4.4.2 (bought refurbished, no sim, not activated).
As soon as i put the sim in at verizon store and started using phone all was good. I immediately root the phone w Towelroot. Use Safestrap and flash the Hyperdrive Rom. Excellent. In my exitment i try the Super6 Rom. Iam now at
Android 5.0.2
baseband i545vrugoc1
kernal 3.4.0-4584173
build gogolies super6-.i545vrugoc1
I can make and receive calls but have no internet and no texting
I cant work until this is fixed. Is ther any hope for me?
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Download Kies and update, but if it doesn't work or you want to have the ability to keep flashing roms(will wipe data):
1)Download and unzip odin
3)Turn off you s4
4)Hold the power, home and Volume down keys if you boot into something like the picture continue or try again
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5)Use you volume keys to press continue
6)Download the .tar from this forum(odexed or deodexed try both) or if the link doesn't work search xda for sch-i545 OF1 tar
7)Right click odin and run as administrator
DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN THE PIT AND OPTIONS Section
8)Check the AP button(PDA in some versions of Odin)
9)Press the AP/PDA button and find the rom that you downloaded
Look at this image for reference, you should have something where each of the arrows point.
10)Press start(not liable for anything this may cause)
11) See if it works!
Didnt work. whatever i did a lil while ago with odin messed it up and now i have the yellow triangle and the phone wont turn off or go into os
bbiigg said:
Didnt work. whatever i did a lil while ago with odin messed it up and now i have the yellow triangle and the phone wont turn off or go into os
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Have you tried pressing volume up when at that screen? Or just pull the battery to turn off.
whowatchlist said:
Have you tried pressing volume up when at that screen? Or just pull the battery to turn off.
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I can take the battery out to shut it off but as soon as the bettery goes in it turnes on automatically. I can only go into download mode and connect to odin and thats it.
bbiigg said:
I can take the battery out to shut it off but as soon as the bettery goes in it turnes on automatically. I can only go into download mode and connect to odin and thats it.
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Can you send a screenshot of your computer when on Odin and a picture of your phone? It would really help.
not sure how to do that. My tablet took some terrible pics.
Well i now have a different screen now that says " Samsung Custom" and it just staays there.
However! If i do volume up,power,home and wait a sec for first vibration and immediately let go of power button while holding volume up and home key i get my upper left hand corner booting menu. I can see my backups on the ex sd and a hyper ro zip file but i cant flash them. it shows something in each backup "data.ext.win000.md5 and 001.md5" as well as "system.ext4. same endings" but cant flash them. I get a failed to mount error.
in the upper left hand corner in red it says
Android System Recovery<3>
KOT49H.I545VRUFNC5
Choose a package to install:
/sdcard
ansd then a boot menu. Is this a good sign?

Start Error in Pixel Experince, by Boot.img flashed by Fastboot (phone almost brick).

Hello friends, I hope you are well. I am writing to everyone to see if anyone can help me with this big problem.
Yesterday install the Rom Pixel Experience, all good, all the steps to perfection and others, had microSD at that time so flash the boot.img by Fastboot. It seems to install the Boot.img in the Recovery TWRP partition, or something like that. Because I do not have the Recovery either, when I try to go to the recovery, the window "Bootloader Unlocked" appears, but it does not take me anywhere, only to the boot of the rom, it is something very strange and the truth scares me. I clarify: I can not access the Fastboot, nor the download mode, nor the recovery, because it does not.
There will be another way: ????
PLEASE IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME, FIND ANOTHER METHOD TO ENTER THE FASTBOOT OR DOWNLOAD MODE, THE SOLUTION THAT WORKS WILL PAY ME WELL TO THE PROPONGA, PLEASE, I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE MY MOBILE, I BUY IT WITH A LOT OF EFFORT.
Last night I dawned on the boot logo, until it was completely downloaded and at this moment it continues to do so ... By GOD!
When trying to enter the Fastboot or download mode, it takes me here:
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Then he starts loading the rom and stays there all the time .:
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I can not access Fastboot, nor download mode, nor recovery, because it has disappeared. There will be another way to enter the Fastboot or download mode, because the phone actually woke up until I wake up today and was even charged. PLEASE.
Hey, sorry for your sad state. Following process worked for me when I got stuck yesterday like that.
1. Connect your phone to PC ( make sure adb/fast boot is setup)
2. Hard reboot your phone with power plus volume down button.
3. As soon as your phone turns off, press volume down only and keep it pressed till you enter fastboot.
4. After this phone should be recognised in PC and you should be able to boot in TWRP using fastboot.
ZestyManu said:
Hey, sorry for your sad state. Following process worked for me when I got stuck yesterday like that.
1. Connect your phone to PC ( make sure adb/fast boot is setup)
2. Hard reboot your phone with power plus volume down button.
3. As soon as your phone turns off, press volume down only and keep it pressed till you enter fastboot.
4. After this phone should be recognised in PC and you should be able to boot in TWRP using fastboot.
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Hope this works for you @Yeriorlando. @gimpy1 had a similar issue when installing Havoc ROM. Part of the problem seems to be when installing the custom kernel?
gimpy1 said:
It was operator error (generally is) on my part, I'm sure. The only thing I did different that I can remember is installing the 9.0 boot image in twrp differently. I installed it in the recovery option first (intentionally, should not have), instead of ticking only the boot choice. I did not untick the recovery option (should have never ticked it in the first place, but I was trying to correct a problem on the ROM, and misread a post).
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He was able to reinstall TWRP using fastboot.
gimpy1 said:
Thx, Chaz. I pulled out my printed instructions from your post, and once I was able to get my device recognized (that did take a couple of tries), reinstalling twrp was pretty easy.
I'm back in business thanks to you.:good:
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IF you still can't after the suggestion at top, maybe @SGCMarkus or @runningnak3d have some tips?
Unless you have an H932, then if you get the error that: "Your device software can't be checked for corruption" then you have fastboot. It is literally impossible to have that message on a WTF rooted phone and NOT have working fastboot.
So, as @ZestyManu said -- make *sure* your phone is powered off. If you have to let, the battery die. Then hold vol down + plug in the USB cable (no need to touch the power button) and you will enter fastboot.
-- Brian
Thank you all. I have solved the problem in a super crazy way, to pure ADB, not fastboot .... Pure ****ing adb ... Hehehehe. Thanks to @ChazzMatt

Samsung s8 plus it keeps restart, and now cant turn on

Hello everybody, I have a problem with my s8 plus Samsung, suddenly my phone froze, and begin to restart, almost 15 times or more. Then I did a force restart by holding volume down and power button, and after then its start-up usually for 10min, and again restarts, after I connecting to the power cable to changing, it stops charging. Then didn't response for nothing. DEAD, and after I leave it for a couple of hours, I tried to enter safe mode and to wipe cache memory. I thought maybe some app is causing a problem, and I run a test, and it shows me like this. On google, I found that probably is the motherboard, but somebody says its maybe last android update. And my friend says that perhaps it is RAM. Can somebody help me, I only want to access my phone to enter the gallery and save photos, then after that, the phone can be lifetime dead, it doesn't concern me. Thanks for helping me
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dzi022 said:
Hello everybody, I have a problem with my s8 plus Samsung, suddenly my phone froze, and begin to restart, almost 15 times or more. Then I did a force restart by holding volume down and power button, and after then its start-up usually for 10min, and again restarts, after I connecting to the power cable to changing, it stops charging. Then didn't response for nothing. DEAD, and after I leave it for a couple of hours, I tried to enter safe mode and to wipe cache memory. I thought maybe some app is causing a problem, and I run a test, and it shows me like this. On google, I found that probably is the motherboard, but somebody says its maybe last android update. And my friend says that perhaps it is RAM. Can somebody help me, I only want to access my phone to enter the gallery and save photos, then after that, the phone can be lifetime dead, it doesn't concern me. Thanks for helping me
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From recovery reboot too bootloader and reflash stock firmware using odin
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jrkruse said:
From recovery reboot too bootloader and reflash stock firmware using odin
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Is it possible then to save photos?
Flash the BL and AP and CP along with home csc file not regular csc file and skip the data file
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jrkruse said:
Flash the BL and AP and CP along with home CSC file, not regular CSC file and skip the data file
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I will try that, when I turn on the device, now it's frozen again, and I think it is turned off, because I can't turn on, but the battery is 100% charged.
dzi022 said:
I will try that, when I turn on the device, now it's frozen again, and I think it is turned off, because I can't turn on, but the battery is 100% charged.
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Honestly you are probably going to have to wipe data but you can try
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jrkruse said:
Honestly you are probably going to have to wipe data but you can try
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Thank you, i will try that. Will post update when finish.
dzi022 said:
Thank you, I will try that. Will post update when finish.
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Finally, after almost 12h, I successfully power on my phone, and when I turn on, it showed me this error. Now I think maybe is everything ok with the motherboard because when I type on google this problem, it says that after Samsung Knox update, many users have this problem with the phone.
dzi022 said:
Finally, after almost 12h, I successfully power on my phone, and when I turn on, it showed me this error. Now I think maybe is everything ok with the motherboard because when I type on google this problem, it says that after Samsung Knox update, many users have this problem with the phone.
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Its not a problem you enter it by holding the bixby +pwr+vol dwn buttons at the same time Its called download mode or bootloader mode this is where you flash stuff in odin after you press the volume up button to continue like it says. So now flash the stock firmware
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